I've seen superlative after superlative concerning the release of Firefox 3.0, and in all honesty, it is making my stomach ache. Yes, Firefox 3.0 is a great release. It has a slicker interface (the UI on Vista looks quite pretty) and the use of native widgets in Linux is a very, very welcome addition. On top of that, it actually delivers what I was craving for the most from my favourite Windows web browser: much improved performance. But does Firefox 3.0 change the web, or alter the way we use the intertubes?

I think they should stop promoting browser and start working on it, start listening to users. And not only to FF users, but to users of other browsers. They should rethink what they do and how, sit down all together and think how to make a browser more usable, less relying on extensions and more powerfull for one thing - browsing!

As far as I can tell the developers has worked very hard on FF3. It's much more optimized and has a smaller footprint. That in itself is a proof because such things require a lot of hard and (IMO) boring work.

It seems that you are expecting some kind of miracle, yet you have no idea of what that miracle is. You just want to get blown away. I wouldn't expect a browser that has to be backwards compatible and stick to the standards to blow anyone away.

I prefer that they keep working on the core and leave the innovation to the addon developers.
In order to create something new that will blow people away it would probably be better to start over from scratch. And even then, it's a hard thing to do.

Perf work is usually pretty exciting in my opinion. You can often get great results through a series of small tweaks. Sometimes, though, you find that you need to just start from scratch and reimplement everything below a particular interface. This tradeoff makes things interesting.